To find a list of small businesses delivering pantry essentials to your home – click here.

Things to keep you occupied while you’re at home

Quintessentially Melbourne

Libraries

State Library Victoria in Melbourne has a wealth of online resources for you. You can explore their collection here. Or watch talks from creatives here. Or view their online galleries here. Or access their databases here and learning materials here.

Other

Melbourne Zoo & Zoos Victoria have set up a few live stream cameras from Melbourne Zoo and Werribee Open Range Zoo, so you can enjoy the zoo from anywhere. To watch the animals click here.

Melbourne Live camSee what Melbourne looks like from the top of Freshwater Place in Southbank here – this is a live broadcast running 24/7.

From other places

National Emergency Library – lends lots of online books for FREE and in many languages too. Find out more here.

Zoos worldwide – this article has links to live broadcasts from zoos around the world – come and see pandas, jellyfish, rhinoceros or some Australian animals.

All National Parks webcams from USA. See amazing nature in action here. Please note the time difference between Australia and USA – the views may be pitch black sometimes!

This article lists 12 world class museums you can visit online. More details here.

How about learning something new

from Melbourne

Knowledge Melbourne has launched monthly online Melbourne Conversations. This week they talked about future culture of media consumption here (Facebook account required). Next month they will be talking about Covid-19.

worldwide

190 universities worldwide has released over 600 FREE online courses to learn from engineering and computer science to business, social sciences and arts & design. Find out more here.